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Red Nile A Biography Of The Worlds Greatest River by Robert Twigger
I had not heard of Robert Twigger until a serendipitous moment when his book Red Nile fell off the shelf in the Norrington room of Blackwell’s Bookshop. It was exactly the book I was looking for, even though I wasn’t looking for it. Bookshops can be like that. Twigger is a consummate storyteller, a proper traveller, authentic, and endlessly curious.
The book is a biography of the world’s greatest river, not one story but a thousand and one, and told as if sitting in a pub clutching a cold Stella. If you are looking for a riveting read while taking a Nile cruise or lounging on the terrace of the Mena Palace, then Red Nile will tempt you out of your comfort zone. Thoroughly researched, insightful, and entertaining, from its sources to the sea.
“People set eyes on the Nile and they are beset by a curious urge to travel up it, discover its secrets, own it, control its bounty. Most of the stories, the human stories, concern attempts successful or not to control this river”
Robert Twigger is a British author, poet and adventurer. After attending Oxford University he trained with the Tokyo Riot Police, which became the subject of his bestselling book Angry White Pyjamas. He has been awarded the Newdigate Award for Literature and the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award. He led the first expedition to cross the Great Sand Sea of the Egyptian Sahara solely on foot and another that was the first since 1793 to cross western Canada in a birchbark canoe. He is the author of nine books, both fiction and non-fivtion, as as several collections of poetry.
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